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Notable Faculty and Alumni

Aurobindo Ghosh was the first Principal of the Bengal National College and among the teachers were luminaries like Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Surendranath Banerjee, Ramendra Sundar Tribedi, Radha Kumud Mukherjee and Benoy Kumar Sarkar. Pioneering efforts came from such dedicated and learned people like Prof. Hemchandra Das Gupta, Prof. Hiralal Roy, Prof. Satish Chandra Bhattacharyya, and many others, who introduced new disciplines and domains of engineering and changed the dimensions of the colonial engineering education. Their work was carried further by Dr. Triguna Sen, Prof. Hemchandra Guha, Prof. Karuna Roy, Prof. M. L. Schroff., Prof. Tuhin Roy, Prof. Gopal Chandra Sen and many others. The University has been enriched by contributions from people like Prof. Amartya Sen, Prof. Sudhindranath Datta, Prof.Buddhadeb Bosu and Prof.Panchanan Chakravorty and many others who steered the early progress of the Arts and Science Faculties-the new additions to the original Faculty of Engineering & Technology.

Some of the other notable alumni and former teachers of the university are:

  • Badal Sircar: Theatre Personality
  • M.N.Roy: Founder of CPI and Communist Party of Mexico
  • Subir Raha: Former Director of ONGC
  • Moon Moon Sen: Bengali Film Actress
  • John Mason (schoolmaster): School Teacher
  • Kunal Basu: Author and Professor
  • Sukanta Chaudhuri: Bengali Scholar of English Literature during the renaissance period.
  • Jasodhara Bagchi: Former chairperson of WB Women's Commission and Founder of School of Women's Studies
  • Parambrata Chatterjee: Actor
  • Ranjan Ghosh: Screenwriter
  • Suhel Seth: Consultant and Actor
  • Rimi B. Chatterjee: Author
  • Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta: Bengali Scholar
  • Sankar Chatterjee: Paleontologist
  • Sudipta Sengupta: Mountaineer and Professor of Structural Geology
  • Swapan Chakravorty: Literary scholar, writer, Professor of English, Director General of the National Library
  • Nabaneeta Dev Sen: Indian Poet, Novelist and Academic
  • Robert Antoine: Jesuit Priest, Sanskritist and Musician.
  • Barnita Bagchi: Indian feminist and academic
  • Ranjon Ghoshal: Musician and founder of India’s first band.
  • Nayan Chanda: Newman and author
  • Tathagata Roy: Engineer and Politician
  • Arnab Ray: Blogger and columnist
  • Ananta Charan Sukla: Philospoher
  • Julius J. Lipner: Professor and Philosopher
  • Sujan Chakraborty: Politician
  • Debabrata Goswami: Indian Spectroscopist
  • Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay: Computer Scientist and IT Advisor
  • Saroj Ghose: Padma Bhushan and Former Director General of National Council of Science Museums, India
  • Bickram Ghosh: Percussionist
  • Kurchi Dasgupta: Painter, writer and translator
  • K. S. Dasgupta: Scientist and Director of Indian Institute of Space Science Technology
  • Jayant Kripalani: Actor and Scriptwriter.
  • Anupam Roy: Singer, Lyricist and Composer
  • Onir: Director, Writer and Producer

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